Wright’s visit last October, also for a revival, was met by a small roadside protest outside the church. Wright was for many decades pastor at a large Chicago church where President Obama was a member. Eventually, though, snippets of some of Wright’s sermons caused such an outcry that Obama, then an Illinois senator running for president, distanced himself from Wright.

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In the most famous of those snippets, Wright takes the U.S. government to task for treating some citizens as “less than human.” He says black people shouldn’t sing “God Bless America” but “God d--- America.”